excommunicate him

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Orestes sat in the audience and as she spoke the words he clapped his hands.The news was carried to the Bishop, who gently declared that he would excommunicate him.Orestes sent word back that the Emperor should be informed of how this Bishop was misusing his office by making threats of where he could land people he did not like, in another world.…Cited from Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers, by Elbert Hubbard

The archbishop urged a doubtful claim, which he had inherited from Theobald, to appoint the priest to a church on the land of William of Eynesford, a tenant of the king.William resisted, and Thomas made his first false move by excommunicating him.Henry at once appealed to the "customs" of the kingdom, which forbade such sentence on the king's barons without the royal consent, and Thomas had to withdraw his excommunication.…Cited from Henry the Second, by Mrs. J. R. Green

On April 6 of that year, he and other presidents of the Seventy who were ordained high priests prior to their call were released.That fall, he dissented from the church and in December the church excommunicated him.In 1845, Reuben McBride reported that Rich was a leader of rioters who broke into and took possession of the Kirtland Temple.…

In 1119 she returned north to meet Henry in Lotharingia.Her husband was occupied in finding a compromise with the Pope, who had excommunicated him.…

Podiebrad relieved the emperor, and secured a verbal reconciliation between the two angry brothers, which lasted until the Bohemian forces had returned to their country, when the feud burst out anew and with increased violence.The emperor procured the ban of the empire against his brother, and the pope excommunicated him.Still Albert fought fiercely, and the strife raged without intermission until Albert suddenly died on the 4th of December, 1463.…Cited from The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power, by John S. C. Abbott

Frederick was quite warranted in saying that it was not ready; and through no fault of his.Gregory excommunicated him, and demanded his submission before the sentence should be removed.Frederick did not submit, but when he sailed it was without the papal support.…Cited from The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII, Ed. by Arthur Mee & J.A. Hammerton

Osbern agreed but at the appointed time and place he did not appear.Robert then sent Osbern letters on the Pope's authority excommunicating him.The monks of Saint-Evroul on being notified of Osbern being judged an intruder and being excommunicated, left to join their lawful abbot Robert.…

To add to the confusion, Pope John XII had appointed Count Eric of Schaumburg and Holstein as the new bishop of Hildesheim.Henry III did not accept this, and the Pope responded by excommunicating him.As he was supported by the cathedral chapter, the Dukes of Brunswick and the local nobility, he controlled the larger part of the bishopric, and Eric only controlled the city of Hildesheim and the monasteries.…

This caused the Pope to excommunicate him, since he had sold two towns which were nominally under papal rule.In 1448 he made peace with his cousins, Sigismondo Pandolfo and Domenico Malatesta, who pushed him to attack Pesaro.…

The cardinal (age 68) fought for his life, and was only killed with the aid of Pallavicini and a band of bravi.Ferdinand accepted responsibility of the murder, and the pope excommunicated him and his generals.After receiving an 87-article accusation of Martinuzzi for treason and hearing testimony from 116 witnesses, the pope exonerated Ferdinand and lifted the excommunications in 1555.…

There was a monk who, in defiance of his vow of poverty, secreted in his cell three pieces of gold.Gregory, on learning this, excommunicated him, and shortly afterwards the monk died.…Cited from Purgatory, by Mary Anne Madden Sadlier

The pope summoned him to appear before him at Avignon to answer to the crimes laid to his charge.Pedro refused to attend, and the pope at once excommunicated him.The King of Arragon and Henry of Trastamare were then summoned to Avignon, and a treaty of alliance was concluded between them, and the pope declared the throne of Castile vacant owing to the excommunication of Pedro, and appointed Henry to it.…Cited from Saint George for England, by G. A. Henty

Henry went to Rome with an army in 1110, and obliged the Pope to crown him emperor, and to concede to him the right in question.When he went back to Germany, the Pope revoked the concession, and excommunicated him.The German princes, as might be expected, sided with the pontiff.…Cited from Outline of Universal History,by George Park Fisher

The pope expressed his willingness to grant Rabelais a favor.The wit replied that if such was the fact, he begged his holiness to excommunicate him.…Cited from Paris: With Pen and Pencil, by David W. Bartlett

The king's messengers sent to plead with the Pope found matters almost desperate.Alexander had determined to excommunicate him at Easter, and to lay an interdiction on all his lands.In their despair, and not venturing to tell their master what they had done, they swore on Henry's part an unreserved submission to the Pope, and the excommunication was barely averted for a few months, while a legation was sent to pronounce an interdiction on his lands, and receive his submission.…Cited from Henry the Second, by Mrs. J. R. Green

Some of them being dissatisfied with the Prior Hotoun, the bishop proposed to hold a visitation.The prior refusing to admit him unless he came unattended, the bishop deposed and excommunicated him.The convent took sides, some with the bishop and some with the prior, and it was only on the interference of the king that a partial peace was restored.…Cited from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham, by J. E. Bygate

Arriving, they found that in the preparations that had been made for their reception a lower seat had been prepared for Don Sancho than for the King of France.The Cid would not suffer such a slight, and became so violent that the Pope excommunicated him.Nevertheless, the seats were made of equal height, and the Cid, who was a good Catholic, humbled himself before the Pope and was forgiven.…Cited from Myths and Legends of All Nations, by Various

Soon after Arius discovered his turbulent spirit, in accusing his archbishop, and raising disturbances in favor of the Meletians.This obliged St. Peter to excommunicate him, nor could he ever be induced to revoke that sentence.But his successor, St. Achillas, upon his repentance, admitted him to his communion, ordained him priest, and made him curate of the church of Baucales, one of the quarters of Alexandria.…Cited from Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, by Alban Butler

Nobody knew for certain just what high authority had excommunicated him, but he was, no doubt, outside the pale of decent, Christian folks.Cited from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos), by Vicente Blasco Ibanez

In 1317, he invaded the possessions of the Diocese of Nyitra, and his troops occupied and pillaged its see.As a consequence, the Bishop of Nitra excommunicated him and his followers again.…